Windmill



(No Model.)

A. WEGLEY.

WINDMILL.

No. 310,237. Patented Jan. 6,-1885.

I llll I i I ZVZZZwasQD A) J UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUSTIN WEGLEY, OF LINCOLN CENTRE, KANSAS.

WIINDMILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,237, dated January6, 1885.

Application filed October'll, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUSTIN WEGLEY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Lincoln Centre, in the countyof Lincoln and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and usefulImprovement in Windmills, of which the following is a specification, towit: This invention relates to an improvement in windmills; and itconsists in certain peculiarities of construction and arrangement,substantially as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, whereby thewheel is fully protected from high winds and storms and stopped andstarted at will, substantially as will be hereinafter more fully setforth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention.appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a perspective view of my windmill, and Fig. 2 alongitudinal vertical section of the same.

A represents the tower, which may be of any of the usual and well-knownforms, and is intended to be provided with the usual circular track onits upper end for a bearing for friction-wheels upon the mill-head. Thisbeing so common in this class of machinery, I have not thought itnecessary to show it in the'drawings.

Upon the tower A is pivoted a box, B, having standards B B upon eachside and a vane, B secured to its rear end.

In the standards B is journaled a shaft, 0, carrying a wind-wheel, 0,upon each end of the tower, one halfof each Wheel being inclosed withinthe box and the other half projecting above it, where it receives theforce of the wind. The shaft 0 is cranked between the wheels 0'0, andhas connected to it a pitman, 0, which extends down through the hollowhub B of the mill, and is connected to whatever machinery it is desiredto operate. The forward end of the box B is provided with grooves orguides b b upon each corner, in which moves a vertically-sliding shieldor deflector, D having beveled outer surfaces, as seen in Fig. 1. Thisshield is hung by a link, d, with a lever, D, fulcrumed in the standards5 B above the wind-wheels, and having avane, D, upon its rear end, asshown. In operation the wind acts upon the portion of the wheels abovethe box B, and supplies power to run the machinery in the usual way, 5while the vane B keeps the box and its wheels always in the wind. Shouldthe wind become too heavy the vane D will be depressed, thus lifting theshield to a greater or less extent, and protecting the blades of thewheels from 61 its force, and in very heavy gales it will be so raisedas to protect the wheels altogether and stop the mill. The speed of themill may also be controlled or stopped at any time by means of a rope orequivalent device attached to the 6 vane D or its lever D and led downthrough the hub to any position at the base of the tower, where it maybe operated by the attendant.

Having thus fully described my invention, 7

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The box B, pivoted upon the tower and provided with the vane B", and thecranked shaft 0, having two wind-wheels, O, secured 7 upon it andrevolving with half their blades within the box, in combination with abeveled shield, D sliding vertically in guides upon the forward end ofthe wheel-box, and the regulating-vane D D, pivoted above the wheels SAUSTIN \VEGLEY.

Witnesses:

LoN. A. MINX, M. M. GEORGE.

